{"id":3661,"date":"2017-02-07T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=3661"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:31:47","slug":"2017ambassador-tiermini","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2017ambassador-tiermini\/","title":{"rendered":"Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2017 – Finger Lakes: Jeremy Tiermini"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeremy Tiermini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeremy Tiermini<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Physical Education and Integrated Health Care at Finger Lakes Community College.<\/p>\n

As I began my own college education as an athletic training student at Mount Union College, I was often encouraged to pursue a teaching certification, as well, in order to be more marketable. For my first three years, I resisted, clearly telling anyone that would listen that I didn\u2019t want to teach because I did not want to deal with the headaches that are often associated with being a teacher. During my senior year, as I reflected on my undergraduate experience, I relented a little. \u201cIf I ever was an educator,\u201d I thought, \u201cI would want to be like the faculty I had here.\u201d I quickly filed those thoughts away and took the steps to advance my career as an athletic trainer.<\/em><\/p>\n

After a series of jobs that helped improve my athletic training career, I ended up at Finger Lakes Community College, where I had the opportunity to teach for the first time. By the time I was officially hired, I arrived on campus on the Friday before classes started. My department chairs parting words to me on that day: \u201cHere are your books. Have your syllabi ready for Monday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I knew nothing of teaching other than my experiences at Mount Union. My goal was to stay one class ahead of my students, as I still had my athletic training responsibilities. I felt overwhelmed for the first few semesters and I was not sure if I made the right choice. Did I really want to spend the rest of my career just trying to stay just one step ahead of my students?<\/em><\/p>\n

After two years at FLCC, I began to pursue my Master\u2019s Degree. For me, already working 70+ hours and with two young children at home, travelling over an hour to the nearest schools to pursue a Master\u2019s degree that would really benefit my career was not an ideal option. I was fortunate that a colleague at a previous job had introduced me to the idea of online learning.<\/em><\/p>\n

Completing my degree in the online environment, through the United States Sports Academy, renewed my passion to teach. As an athletic trainer, I was always able to relate the information I was presenting to the athlete and to the coach in a practical, easy to understand manner. However, in the classroom, I found myself falling into the rut of lecturing, as being only one step ahead of my students took its toll on my effectiveness as an educator. The quality of instruction I received from my online degree helped me to develop the first online courses in our department and continues to help me in both my online and face-to-face courses. Thinking as an online faculty member has helped me to modify old assignments and create new educational activities that allow my students to participate in a practical application of the concepts they need to learn.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are days when I miss the athletic training room, where I could help my students learn about sports medicine through practical applications that supplemented their course work. However, those days are becoming fewer, as I continually work to modify my course delivery to create the learning environment my students deserve, like my professors at Mount Union and the United States Sports Academy did for me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Tiermini is an Associate Professor of Physical Education and Integrated Health Care at Finger Lakes Community College. As I began my own college education as an athletic training student at Mount Union College, I was often encouraged to pursue a teaching certification, as well, in order to be more marketable. For my first three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":2473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3661\/revisions\/3768"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}